JSM's BEGGING FOR BANNING #28 8/23/11 - 10/24/11

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http://www.wesh.com/news/29382438/detail.html
Pup Harper Appears On 'Today,' Chews Lauer's Shoes
Dog Who Couldn't Walk Now Struts On TV
POSTED: 9:16 am EDT October 4, 2011

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was watching this..very wonderful story of hope and survival for a puppy who was thrown in the trash..

[Bearlyhere]

I have a friend that works for this hospital group 

http://pinkglovedance.com/competition/entry-8

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Klaas, LOVE IT!

Remember ladies, get the damm mamm!!

Yes ma'am!

[Sister]

Good morning Monkeys.

Sister I hope you are feeling better today..if not please call your doctor and tell them the stuff they are giving you is not working properly and you need something to knock this illness out of your system.

Saying lots of prayers.

Thank you GypsyDD, I think I have finally turned the corner.  Weak as a kitten but only have a very low grade fever now. 

[Sister]

Off to the doctor again . . . aarrgh! I am quite ready to feel better.  Am as weak as a kitten!
Thoughts and prayers.

Gosh, U are still not feeling better?  I hope the doc has an idea of what to try next for you today. 

Still not feeling any better.  Another round of antibiotics.
Can hardly move out of my own way -- all I want to do is sleep.

     

Thank you all for your prayers.  They have given me such comfort.  One more day of antiobiotics and maybe I will be on the mend.  Feel so much better today, now just need to get my body in motion after so much bed rest.
 

[Bearlyhere]

Good morning Monkeys.

Sister I hope you are feeling better today..if not please call your doctor and tell them the stuff they are giving you is not working properly and you need something to knock this illness out of your system.

Saying lots of prayers.

Thank you GypsyDD, I think I have finally turned the corner.  Weak as a kitten but only have a very low grade fever now. 

Prayers that you continue to gain strength and are on the road to recovery, Sister.

 

[joesamas mama]

Morning Monkeys!!! Just now having a chance to get in the cage.

Missed you all while I was away. Prayed for Sister and others in need. I am very busy at work, so probably won't catch up until later.

Still missing Josef, but praying time will heal.

Love ya monkeys

JSM

[Sister]

Good morning Monkeys.

Sister I hope you are feeling better today..if not please call your doctor and tell them the stuff they are giving you is not working properly and you need something to knock this illness out of your system.

Saying lots of prayers.

Thank you GypsyDD, I think I have finally turned the corner.  Weak as a kitten but only have a very low grade fever now. 

Prayers that you continue to gain strength and are on the road to recovery, Sister.

 

Thank you so much Bearly, it feels good to have the strength to sit at the computer.  I covet all the prayers.

[Bearlyhere]

Morning Monkeys!!! Just now having a chance to get in the cage.

Missed you all while I was away. Prayed for Sister and others in need. I am very busy at work, so probably won't catch up until later.

Still missing Josef, but praying time will heal.

Love ya monkeys

JSM

Hey, Cutie!

 

[Bearlyhere]

Good morning Monkeys.

Sister I hope you are feeling better today..if not please call your doctor and tell them the stuff they are giving you is not working properly and you need something to knock this illness out of your system.

Saying lots of prayers.

Thank you GypsyDD, I think I have finally turned the corner.  Weak as a kitten but only have a very low grade fever now. 

Prayers that you continue to gain strength and are on the road to recovery, Sister.

 

Thank you so much Bearly, it feels good to have the strength to sit at the computer.  I covet all the prayers.

You are most welcome!

[can]

Sister, I'm so happy to hear your fever is almost gone.  Hoping your strength returns quickly.
 

[can]

Morning Monkeys!!! Just now having a chance to get in the cage.

Missed you all while I was away. Prayed for Sister and others in need. I am very busy at work, so probably won't catch up until later.

Still missing Josef, but praying time will heal.

Love ya monkeys

JSM

Good to hear from you JSM.  I'm sure your trip to Chicago was just what the doctor ordered.
Edit-fixed quote.  MB

[joesamas mama]

Provincial election coming up and I'm off to vote in the advance polls. 

Spent the day with my Mom yesterday.  She wanted a new winter coat.  She chose red!
It looks great on her and adds some color to her face. 

hubs is partridge hunting and I hope to utilise my time organising and cleaning.  Might have a house guest next month and feel pressured - and I might go on a little holiday trip in a few days....IF i can get it together. 

have a great day Monkeys!

Sounds great, a holiday is always fun.

Sorry about the pressure, Ikwym.

Red--what a great color for such a young lady, or should I say colour.

While your husband is hunting, maybe he could hunt down a nice guy for me.  lol

Yes, I look forward to my trip.  Just going for a short time as I will be someone's house guest. Having had so many in the past, I know how much work it can be.

color colour -bearly you're always on it! 

Wish he could hunt down a nice guy for you.  Will a partridge do...it won't talk back.

What's with the guy you're emailing with?  aren't you sure if he's a nice guy?   I am so curious! 

But mostly, I WANT THE BEST FOR THE BEST!   

Thanks.

We text a lot.  I don't think you can be really sure until you spend time with someone.

 

[joesamas mama]

Hi Babybear.

We had a Rascal too.  So named by our daughter who got her from the pound when she was in university far away from home.  The pound had no history on her. Rascal was anxious, had separation anxiety etc. and our daughter was anything but the alfa and Rascal began to turn on her and others.  Our daughter was heartbroken so we took her in.  She left us in February - but in the seven years or so that she was here, she calmed down quite a bit, had a structured, predictable life and a garden which she patrolled and lots of squirrels to chase. 
Frightened seems a good word to describe Rascal, even though she was not timid.

 

Hi Can--Rascal came to live with us before my husband died and they bonded immediately.  My husband always called every dog Rascal, like, "Come here you little rascal," so he decided to name him that.  He was an outside dog at the beginning, but little by little my husband let him come in for special occasions--then it got to the point that Rascal came in every night to watch Rush Limbaugh sitting in the recliner with my husband.  He always barked at Rush Limbaugh.  I never knew if that was approval or disapproval.  I never found out if Rascal was a Democrat or a Republican.  Shortly afterward, Rascal inched his way into the house permanently.  He was especially afraid of loud noises and fireworks.  I think he had been hurt that way.  On the 4th of July he would hear fireworks and tremble and cry and hide under the bed.  Once I actually got under the bed with him to comfort him.

Rascal was afraid of everything, especially men.  I assume it was a man who had hurt him.  But one day when there was a painter here and he was walking toward me with a can of paint in one hand, Rascal ran up and bit him behind the knee.  That sweet dog, who was afraid of his shadow, tried to protect me.  The painter understood.

After my husband died, Rascal would sit looking down the road waiting for him to come home.  It was very touching.  I never knew how old Rascal was, but he lived several years after that and sat in the reclining chair all by himself.

Hi Babybear.  You have such a wonderful way with words and I love to read ALL of your posts. 
Thank you for your lovely story of your Rascal.  Your love of animals shines through.

The pound should not have given Rascal to our daughter.  Nor should our daughter have insisted on having such a high strung Springer Spaniel (in an apt.)  The pound refused her to a family with children, and to our daughter.  Our daughter persisted, visited the pound every day to see Rascal and asked again and again to have her.  I think she wore them down.
Our Rascal was afraid of men too I guess, because she growled at a lot of them including my husband who like his daughter couldn't be more of an animal lover.  She slept in a doggie bed with pillows in our bedroom, but every morning we found her lying on the floor with her head under the bed beside my husband.      go figure.

 

Can, that is so sad that they gave Rascal to her even though they knew better. Thankfully you and your husband got Rascal and she loved sleeping under your husband's bed. That is so sweet. 

We just moved her dog house away from it's place yesterday.  Felt like saying good bye all over again. 

Can, I understand I can't take Josef's leash out of the car yet.

[joesamas mama]

Morning Monkeys!

Sorry if I missed anyone.  Sometimes it's hard to catch up.

JSM - glad the steroids are helping with the pain and numbness.  How much longer do you have to take the meds?
I am glad to hear you have completed the rituals for Josef and I hope in so doing you found some comfort. You were an amazing doggie Mom.  The best!
Happy to hear you will soon be with your beloved CC in Chicago. 

SISTER - Prayers for you continue.  Also for your Mom and Connie.

GE - have your daughter and grands moved into their new place yet?  What are you planning when your household is back to two - besides lots of rest?
It's great that you and dh were able to be there when the family needed you.  Blessings on you. 
 

Can thank you. I am still having hard times, but today I had a MRI and started thinking of Josef, knew if I cried I would have motion artifact and they would have to do it again.  I am claustrophobic so I started praying the rosary, using my fingers instead of beads  It worked, kept my mind from wandering to thoughts of Josef. I am so ready to go to Chicago and see CC, wish I was there right now. Even if it is cold 

I've always wondered how a claustrophobic person would ever be able to manage an MRI. 
YAY for JSM - you found a way...
You'll be there soon!   

  washcloth over the eyes and 1/2 of happy pill. 

[joesamas mama]

Morning monkeys. One more day till JSM.

Nancy Grace wardrobe malfunction last night...



And I wasted my time watching MNF instead.

I can't believe how they have duded Nancy up.  I've heard her make desparaging remarks in the past about cleavage. 
Her costumes don't flatter her figure - and this weeks hair style, yuk!

Do the contestants sign an agreement that the costume designer has complete license? 

  She better have signed an agreement to wear that ugly dress. The silver one she wore a couple of weeks ago was cute, but she had arm stockings on (basically long sleeved spanx) You could tell because when she moved her arms the seam showed. (My dancing friend told me that, I would have never guessed it)

[joesamas mama]

Hoover Dam is cool to see.
also, it is fun to just go touring through all of the casinos in Vegas..they are so lush and extravagant..and there are wonderful shows going on..it is a fun place that is for sure!

Thanks Cookie - yes, I have heard the casinos themselves are quite a sight - lots of roller coasters there!  (IDK if my son will like the roller coasters either, ha ha).  Funny that son is not afraid of much in this world - except heights.  He gets it honestly from his Dad.

Also speaking of the MRI - hubs did the kind where you "sit down" and it was much easier for him to be cooperative.  He WILL NOT do a regular nor an open MRI.  We have done everything possible for either one and he refuses (or his mind refuses) to cooperate.  This last bout of trouble with his back was about to do him in - when he was sent to do the sit down one.  I did not personally see the machine and it's set up - but he came out of the room and said he cooperated that time.  (And he wasn't so medicated that he was falling down!!)

Hate heights, claustrophobic, the only problem with the open MRI's is the quality isn't as good as closed. That being said, if that is all you can do being claustrophobic it is worth having an open than the stress and anxiety of closed MRI. Hope Vegas is a fun time.

[joesamas mama]

Caddy..never heard of the sit up version of mri..I had one a long time ago..claustrophobic to the max! not sure how I made it through...will hope that if I ever have to have another one that it will be open or the sit up kind...

Hopefully you never have to have another Cookie, if you do closed MRI ask for a cloth to cover your eyes. That helps a bunch. 

[joesamas mama]

Morning Monkeys... gotta get in the shower, zip my suitcase and try not to have a nervous breakdown because I HATE to fly.

I will miss you all but will check in on the phone. YAY!!! Golf this week with CC. I'm gonna beat him at least one round, or at least that is my hope   

  Love hugs and prayers. JSM

 

  Miss ya trimm, keeping you in my prayers that the neighbors leave you alone   

They are at their real home today.So happy for that.
I am going to have lunch with my parents tomorrow...dad told me to bring the truck because he had some stuff to give me.....his shop is full of all kinds of good stuff.Then he said he had 356 stair spindles to get rid of.WTF? One of his friends had a bunch left over from some job.I said "Sure Dad."
I know some people who can actually use some,but not that many. 
Guess I will keep a few for table legs and maybe a head knocker.    There better get something good over in the corner for taking these off of his hands.My mom is having a chit fit. 

  356 stair spindles?????? Oh my???? Hope something was good over in the corner to take all those spindles. Use the head knocker on the neighbors 

[joesamas mama]

Bearly, hope you recover soon from you girls' weekend.  Don't blame you for not missing it, nothing like being with folks that know your history.

I read that you have been seeing this fella.  Wasn't sure that you'd got past the on-line stage. 

Well, I hope HE is very special coz we all know YOU are!  enough said.

What does cubby think of him?

My friends daughter raised her son solo and never brought a man into the household.  Her son is 16 now and she is seeing someone.  When she told her son, he said "Good Mom, what took you so long?"

Blessings.
can

We cannot meet until December, he is out of the country on business.  I know this to be true.  I have his address there.  We text and IM every day.  He sends me pictures of the job site, too, with him in it.

I confuse easy bearly.  So you haven't met this guy in the flesh yet, but may do so in December?  . . . if you don't talk yourself out of it. 

Yes, ma'am.  As much as I joke around here, just hearing the words meeting someone in the flesh has me running for cover.

 

No running for cover Bearly, you are a special person and this just be the man for you. I know how you feel meeting them in the flesh. Just ask CC, he drove by me three times at Midway before he finally stopped and got me 

You will be fine, praying for you sweetie.

Why did he do that?  He probably could not believe that beauty was really you.  What is Midway?

  He was in the wrong lane (I think). Midway is the other airport in Chicago.

[joesamas mama]

I'm getting Josef's name tattoed on my foot! I really thought my butt was more appropriate, but CC said NO!! 

  Have fun!!!!!!!

Off to my parents house I go..... what all comes back with me nobody knows.   
 

let us know what treasures you get!

Along with the spindles for a couple of family members,I got 4 pair of jeans,4 tops,3 lounging pants,a new robe and some of my dad's home made spaghetti sauce and  cold beer he had stashed in the shop. 
and dad made sure picked up candy corn.
  We had hamburgers and baked beans for lunch and Mississippi mud cake for desert.  They are so sweet,they spoil me.  It was a great time.  Got back home and Digger had chewed through the doggie gate. 

  Mississippi mud cake  That is a great treasure.